This study demonstrates that variation reduction is an important, but not requisite, component of organizational success under orthopedic bundled payment. Objectives: To describe the extent of and ...

Clinical decision making is expected to be grounded in high-quality scientific evidence. However, the presence of significant, unwarranted variation in treatment suggests that decision making is also ...

Crystal Run Healthcare implemented a program to reduce practice variation through development of a robust best practice library grounded in published clinical guidelines and expert opinion from ...

The authors sought to measure and compare practice preference variation in neonatal respiratory care within and between neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) using the Neonatology Survey of ...

To deliver truly patient-centered care, we must both reduce unnecessary practice variation in care and increase truly necessary care variation. Unfortunately, today’s care transformation efforts ...

Combined Chemoradiotherapy Regimens of Paclitaxel and Carboplatin for Locally Advanced Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer: A Randomized Phase II Locally Advanced Multi-Modality Protocol Their findings clearly ...